Liberty Elementary Media Center: Chad Crews: Magic Man!!

Liberty Elementary Media Center: Chad Crews: Magic Man!!: "Create your own video slideshow at animoto.com. On March 24, 2011 Chad Crews, the magical educator, came to entertain students who met a..."

Awesome Mural by Hull Middle School Students!

I just thought that I would share a mural that was painted by sixth grade students last year (so now they are 7th graders!) at Hull Middle school for my program. It has been on display the last two years and I have been offered it to take home and once I move I am thinking it would go great in my "theater" room on the wall opposite the tv. Yes, I believe that would be lovely. Click on the pic below to see the full size! This was taken with my cell phone, it looks even better in person! See if you can name all the Poe stories that are represented in the painting!

Middle School Photos Galore!

I have several photos from different middle and high schools that I have performed at this school year. Since I don't have much space on the main website, I'll post some more here for everyone to see! Enjoy!

New Look to the Website!!!!

After many, many hours the website has been updated and uploaded. It was a nerve-wracking experience as I went to hit the "publish" button and erase all the old material and replace it with the new stuff.
Thankfully only a few tweaks were needed (so far!) and everything worked the way it should.

Here's a couple of links to some nice articles on the site if you have not seen them yet. Just click on the pictures below to read the whole thing.

While doing all this, I have learned quite a few things about computer stuff in general, including how to take a snapshot of a webpage and then turn it into a picture that can be uploaded. I enjoy working on website design, although the lack of sleep with two kids 3 and under catches up to you after being up all night several nights in a row designing and editing things.

Now everyone go back over to the main website and explore and let me know if you find any strange things that need to be corrected.

Have fun!

Summer Reading 2011 Right Around the Corner!

Greetings Everyone!
The end of the school year is upon us and it's just a few weeks away from the hectic (for me at least!) summer schedule. The new show is coming along nicely and it goes along with the "One World, Many Stories" theme. I'll be pulling out some classics of magic for this program - some of which have been around for thousands and thousands of years. While we are at it, we'll also learn all about their different countries of origin - including ancient Egypt and China.

This year's show will also feature a brand new comedy escape - something in a humorous way connected to my "Almost World Famous" straitjacket escape - you'll have to come to one of my library stops this summer to see it! Either that, or wait until the upcoming school year to witness the hilarity.

Also, I am excited to inform you all that we are possibly going to have a new snake added to the family. Recently one of our snakes laid an egg and we managed to get it into an incubator pretty quickly and are now simply waiting and watching to see if it will hatch. They can take around 60 days to hatch - a fact that my 3 year old does not quite grasp. She asks me every day if the egg has hatched yet. If it does hatch, we shall name the little snake Nemo.

Hope to see everyone this summer!

2011 Begins!

Greetings Everyone!
After a very, very busy first half of the school year it is now time for the second half of the 2010-2011 school year. With over two weeks worth of shows in January, the year is off to a great start. I am most excited about the official debut of my new program "Something Wicked This Way Comes: A Shakespeare Experiment." It has been performed at 3 high schools during 2010 and has now been performed during January of this year and has received great reviews so far! This was designed with high schools in mind but the first folks to book the program this year was actually an 8th Grade Honor's English class at a middle school and it was a blast!

For those who know me, there are also some new pics on the "About Me" page of the website - different family photos that are fun and goofy! I would encourage you to go and take a look - but...I think I'll just post them here as well!

Summer Reading 2010 Comes to an End!

Yet another summer reading season has come to an end. It was a fun, fun summer with lots of shows and lots of travel! My cousin Morgan who has assisted me for the past 4 years during the summer will now be moving on as she will be living in Valdosta as she starts her Sophomore year of college, and next summer will get a "real" job working at Home Depot. The end of an era has come!

So, to Morgan I say this: "Mo, you are sure gonna miss me next summer when you are having to work at your "real" job!" To say goodbye - I shall post a pic of Mo and myself below...word.

Now the quest begins to find a new assistant for the next four years...who shall it be? Only time will tell.

Below I will list a few links to articles that have appeared about the show over the summer! Feel free to peruse them at your pleasure!

The Verge This is an nice article from "The Verge" - a local magazine in Augusta - the story starts on page 11.

Flickr Photos of the show this summer at the Wagner Library in SC.

Aiken Standard This one is from The Aiken Standard.